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1"Compeyson's wife, being used to him, giv him some liquor to get the horrors off, and by and by he quieted. 'O, she's
2gone! Has her keeper been for her?' he says. 'Yes,' says Compeyson's wife. 'Did you tell him to lock her and bar her
3in?' 'Yes.' 'And to take that ugly thing away from her?' 'Yes, yes, all right.' 'You're a good creetur,' he says, 'don't
4leave me, whatever you do, and thank you!' "He rested pretty quiet till it might want a few minutes of five, and then he
5starts up with a scream, and screams out, 'Here she is! She's got the shroud again. She's unfolding it. She's coming out
6of the corner. She's coming to the bed. Hold me, both on you--one of each side--don't let her touch me with it. Hah! she
7missed me that time. Don't let her throw it over my shoulders. Don't let her lift me up to get it round me. She's
8lifting me up. Keep me down!' Then he lifted himself up hard, and was dead. "Compeyson took it easy as a good riddance
9for both sides. Him and me was soon busy, and first he swore me (being ever artful) on my own book,--this here little
10black book, dear boy, what I swore your comrade on. "Not to go into the things that Compeyson planned, and I done--which
11'ud take a week--I'll simply say to you, dear boy, and Pip's comrade, that that man got me into such nets as made me his
12black slave. I was always in debt to him, always under his thumb, always a working, always a getting into danger. He was
13younger than me, but he'd got craft, and he'd got learning, and he overmatched me five hundred times told and no mercy.
14My Missis as I had the hard time wi'--Stop though! I ain't brought her in--" He looked about him in a confused way, as
15if he had lost his place in the book of his remembrance; and he turned his face to the fire, and spread his hands
16broader on his knees, and lifted them off and put them on again. "There ain't no need to go into it," he said, looking
17round once more. "The time wi' Compeyson was a'most as hard a time as ever I had; that said, all's said. Did I tell you
18as I was tried, alone, for misdemeanor, while with Compeyson?" I answered, No. "Well!" he said, "I was, and got
19convicted. As to took up on suspicion, that was twice or three times in the four or five year that it lasted; but
20evidence was wanting. At last, me and Compeyson was both committed for felony,--on a charge of putting stolen notes in
21circulation,--and there was other charges behind. Compeyson says to me, 'Separate defences, no communication,' and that
22was all. And I was so miserable poor, that I sold all the clothes I had, except what hung on my back, afore I could get
23Jaggers. "When we was put in the dock, I noticed first of all what a gentleman Compeyson looked, wi' his curly hair and
24his black clothes and his white pocket-handkercher, and what a common sort of a wretch I looked. When the prosecution
25opened and the evidence was put short, aforehand, I noticed how heavy it all bore on me, and how light on him. When the
26evidence was giv in the box, I noticed how it was always me that had come for'ard, and could be swore to, how it was
27always me that the money had been paid to, how it was always me that had seemed to work the thing and get the profit.
28But when the defence come on, then I see the plan plainer; for, says the counsellor for Compeyson, 'My lord and
29gentlemen, here you has afore you, side by side, two persons as your eyes can separate wide; one, the younger, well
30brought up, who will be spoke to as such; one, the elder, ill brought up, who will be spoke to as such; one, the
31younger, seldom if ever seen in these here transactions, and only suspected; t'other, the elder, always seen in 'em and
32always wi' his guilt brought home. Can you doubt, if there is but one in it, which is the one, and, if there is two in
33it, which is much the worst one?' And such-like. And when it come to character, warn't it Compeyson as had been to the
34school, and warn't it his schoolfellows as was in this position and in that, and warn't it him as had been know'd by
35witnesses in such clubs and societies, and nowt to his disadvantage? And warn't it me as had been tried afore, and as
36had been know'd up hill and down dale in Bridewells and Lock-Ups! And when it come to speech-making, warn't it Compeyson
37as could speak to 'em wi' his face dropping every now and then into his white pocket-handkercher,--ah! and wi' verses in
38his speech, too,--and warn't it me as could only say, 'Gentlemen, this man at my side is a most precious rascal'? And
39when the verdict come, warn't it Compeyson as was recommended to mercy on account of good character and bad company, and
40giving up all the information he could agen me, and warn't it me as got never a word but Guilty? And when I says to
41Compeyson, 'Once out of this court, I'll smash that face of yourn!' ain't it Compeyson as prays the Judge to be
42protected, and gets two turnkeys stood betwixt us? And when we're sentenced, ain't it him as gets seven year, and me
43fourteen, and ain't it him as the Judge is sorry for, because he might a done so well, and ain't it me as the Judge
44perceives to be a old offender of wiolent passion, likely to come to worse?" He had worked himself into a state of great
45excitement, but he checked it, took two or three short breaths, swallowed as often, and stretching out his hand towards
46me said, in a reassuring manner, "I ain't a-going to be low, dear boy!" He had so heated himself that he took out his
47handkerchief and wiped his face and head and neck and hands, before he could go on. [Illustration] "I had said to
48Compeyson that I'd smash that face of his, and I swore Lord smash mine! to do it. We was in the same prison-ship, but I
49couldn't get at him for long, though I tried. At last I come behind him and hit him on the cheek to turn him round and
50get a smashing one at him, when I was seen and seized. The black-hole of that ship warn't a strong one, to a judge of
51black-holes that could swim and dive. I escaped to the shore, and I was a hiding among the graves there, envying them as
52was in 'em and all over, when I first see my boy!" He regarded me with a look of affection that made him almost
53abhorrent to me again, though I had felt great pity for him. "By my boy, I was giv to understand as Compeyson was out on
54them marshes too. Upon my soul, I half believe he escaped in his terror, to get quit of me, not knowing it was me as had
55got ashore. I hunted him down. I smashed his face. 'And now,' says I 'as the worst thing I can do, caring nothing for
56myself, I'll drag you back.' And I'd have swum off, towing him by the hair, if it had come to that, and I'd a got him
57aboard without the soldiers. "Of course he'd much the best of it to the last,--his character was so good. He had escaped
58when he was made half wild by me and my murderous intentions; and his punishment was light. I was put in irons, brought
59to trial again, and sent for life. I didn't stop for life, dear boy and Pip's comrade, being here." He wiped himself
60again, as he had done before, and then slowly took his tangle of tobacco from his pocket, and plucked his pipe from his
61button-hole, and slowly filled it, and began to smoke. "Is he dead?" I asked, after a silence. "Is who dead, dear boy?"
62"Compeyson." "He hopes I am, if he's alive, you may be sure," with a fierce look. "I never heerd no more of him."
63Herbert had been writing with his pencil in the cover of a book. He softly pushed the book over to me, as Provis stood
64smoking with his eyes on the fire, and I read in it:-- "Young Havisham's name was Arthur. Compeyson is the man who
65professed to be Miss Havisham's lover." I shut the book and nodded slightly to Herbert, and put the book by; but we
66neither of us said anything, and both looked at Provis as he stood smoking by the fire.
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